Steve and I traveled over to the Wadsworth Mansion in Middletown to check out their grounds for an upcoming wedding this next week. It should be a very beautiful location for the event. The grounds were amazing! I thought you might be interested in the landscape history, Lind:"In 1900, three years after his marriage to Katharine Fearing Hubbard, Colonel Wadsworth began preparing plans for the site of their future country summer residence "Long Hill" in the rollings hills of western Middletown. An authority on the emerging science of forestry and conservation, Colonel Wadsworth had a concern for the environment far ahead of his time. Working with the nationally renowned landscape architectural firm, The Olmsted Brothers, 500 acres of Long Hill were designed in the tradition of a working landscape. They created an estate that evolved from the formal and classical near the Mansion, to varied, well-managed forests and pastures."
